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Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “Climate change”

Democracy is endangered: is sustainability in peril?

9th January 2019 With democracy becoming an endangered species, is sustainability in peril? Even with David Attenborough speaking on behalf of The People at the Climate talks in Poland, you wouldn’t have guessed from the media coverage that arresting the ever-growing emissions of climate-damaging gasses was the most important challenge …

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St Andrews Prize for the Environment

  • Aquaculture Business Training
  • Sea Cucumber farming
  • Community health client with her mother and baby
  • Landing Octopus
  • School Scholarship Recipient
  • Woman Gleaning octopus on reef flats

ne of the most interesting things I get to do is be a Trustee of the St Andrews Prize for the Environment. At the end of April, the prize, a joint venture between the eponymous university and Aberdeen based oil company ConocoPhillips, celebrated its 15th anniversary by selecting Blue Ventures …

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The Positive Deviant in Brazil

  • Sao Paulo City

n Brazil to promote O Divergente Positivo the Portuguese language edition of The Positive Deviant. So far (just over a week) it has been one rather frantic round of talks, seminars, interviews and meetings. More in future posts. First some background. Looking out from my high rise hotel over the roof tops and …

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Sara Parkin

I’m Principal Associate of The Sustainability Literacy Project, and Founder-Director & Trustee of Forum for the Future. My 2010 book The Positive Deviant: Sustainability Leadership in a Perverse World is now a course book in many countries. By wide recommendation its sequel What Does Good Look Like? concentrates on an articulation of what sort of world we want to have. I owe many thanks to the Marmot Charitable Trust for their support and patience during the writing of this on-line book. Read more about me here.

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